Ritchey is for real progress

Published: Friday, October 13, 2006 at 4:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Friday, October 13, 2006 at 12:00 a.m.

To The Editor: A recent letter took Eva Ritchey to task for "blocking progress" for her leadership in preventing the widening of I-26 in Henderson County.

Anyone who has driven I-26 on a regular basis knows that the problems start at the Long Shoals exit in Buncombe County and get worse as you go west (that's north for you folks that only get as far as the writer). It was a boondoggle pushed by a few for the profit of a few and would have wasted monies desperately needed for the real logjam, which is the I-40/I-240/I-26 junction, and from other problems in this county.

On the matter of WHKP, she was right in urging the commissioners to order the station to delete its political content from its rebroadcast over a government channel. To do otherwise would be government taking a partisan position.

Her opponent, Larry Young, is a holdover of the unproductive, tear-down-the-mountain-and-build-your-condo, let-the-schoolhouse-rot-and-fall-into-the-ditch governance of the likes of Grady Hawkins and Don Ward. We need and deserve better.

<p>To The Editor: A recent letter took Eva Ritchey to task for "blocking progress" for her leadership in preventing the widening of I-26 in Henderson County.</p><!-- Nothing to do. The paragraph has already been output --><p>Anyone who has driven I-26 on a regular basis knows that the problems start at the Long Shoals exit in Buncombe County and get worse as you go west (that's north for you folks that only get as far as the writer). It was a boondoggle pushed by a few for the profit of a few and would have wasted monies desperately needed for the real logjam, which is the I-40/I-240/I-26 junction, and from other problems in this county.</p><p>On the matter of WHKP, she was right in urging the commissioners to order the station to delete its political content from its rebroadcast over a government channel. To do otherwise would be government taking a partisan position.</p><p>Her opponent, Larry Young, is a holdover of the unproductive, tear-down-the-mountain-and-build-your-condo, let-the-schoolhouse-rot-and-fall-into-the-ditch governance of the likes of Grady Hawkins and Don Ward. We need and deserve better.</p><p>On Election Day, vote for real progress. Vote for Eva Ritchey.</p><p>Bill Modlin</p><p>Hendersonville</p>